This isn't actually a train song, but I feel obliged to mention it, because for some reason I listen to it every time I ride a train:

EDIT: ...wait... IS this a song about a train? I always assumed they were referring to a stagecoach, but a quick glance at google tells me that coach means something related to modern public transport in British English, although I can't quite decipher what exactly.

humblebee wrote:Yex, what's that siren? Quick, hide! I think it's the Eleven Music Distraction Police. They've been alerted to your outrageous crimes against the definition of a country!

Yex wrote:This isn't actually a train song, but I feel obliged to mention it, because for some reason I listen to it every time I ride a train:

EDIT: ...wait... IS this a song about a train? I always assumed they were referring to a stagecoach, but a quick glance at google tells me that coach means something related to modern public transport in British English, although I can't quite decipher what exactly.

It's a sort of long, one decker bus, like a Greyhound Bus in the States.

There's something very Sarah about making it a coach station rather than a train but I'm not sure what. Probably the budgetary restrictions.

Michelle Shocked turned into a homophobic Christian nut, but I still secretly like her music; she had a song called If Love Was a Train, not one of my favorites of hers, but for the sake of the list I'm including it. I can't find it on youtube (she would be the sort to make sure no one gets to listen to her songs without shelling out the cash first), but you can find plenty of covers of it.

humblebee wrote:Yex, what's that siren? Quick, hide! I think it's the Eleven Music Distraction Police. They've been alerted to your outrageous crimes against the definition of a country!

There are the various versions of Casey Jones, ranging from the traditional...

...to its (Joe Hill-penned) political parody...

...all the way to the version that makes the story into a metaphor for cocaine -

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Speaking of drugs, here's the song my wife and I danced to as our 'first dance' at our wedding. It's not about trains, but the first line is "There's a steel train comin' through" (although I think he's referring to a heroin needle):